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I found this on a '.org' site "Freestyle flying is about expressing yourself with a kite through a range of unusual maneuvers; flying the kite on its back, its belly and linking it all together to look really smooth."

TBH.. A little dry and non descriptive if not possibly miss-representative...

Freestyle is about letting the moment unfold. It is about expressing yourself as an artwork carved in the wind, on a quarter-pipe or in a powder bowl. It is about balancing yourself with the forces of nature - dancing with gravity, riding the wind, or carving the snow. Freestyle is everywhere. It is the way of the Tao. Everything flows.

"Freestyle is not just another word for "trick flying". Sure, freestyle flying will often include radical tricks and extreme moves, but the two are not synonymous. Freestyle is about Freedom and Style. Freedom to express yourself and explore the moment, and to do it with style. Freestyle flying can be any kind of flying. That's where the freedom comes from."

That seemed a lot closer to me, but we can't go and just steal Andy's word's whenever we need a description....

So I'm putting it out there, how you would go about writing a piece of descriptive writing, read 'PR Blurb' in a description of Freestyle, to and for 'the freestyle layman'?

I was thinking that if we all had a bit of a go that maybe we could gather up a little resource of 'open source' phrases that we, as a 'style', can dole out to the laymen to assist them in their 'education'. Who knows it might make it easier for us to get good press.

This is my little go with the idea, and trust me I know there are better ways to say it, go on have a play

The 'pilot' of a Sports Kite is as much artist as athlete, If we were to fly in a 'gallery' many of the forms that are flown could just as easily be described as, “Intimate visual studies in environmental awareness and fluid dynamics, using a highly tuned sports kite as a 4 dimensional brush”.

But we don't generally fly in galleries, the canvas of choice that the pilot chooses is the sky, And our medium? Quite simply, it's the wind.

A highly interactive and intuitive style of kite flying, The freestyle pilots roll is seen more as that of a guide rather than of a master. At most a pilot only ever asks for their kites co-operation,

The expression, in it's highest form is considered by it's practitioners as much as 'artful play' as 'disciplined structure'.

So as I've said, there should be a few of you out there with some half decent wordsmithery skills....

music has an underlying structure which is brought to life by the skill of the musician with their instrument. improvisation allows the musician to rearrange the composition and timing to embellish the performance, interpreting the music in his or her own way, to speak to an idea or emotion.

in freestyle kite flying, you're doing the same thing. you're creatively expressing yourself through an improvised performance of a honed skill. the greater the refinement in skill, the more impressive and varied the result.

I have been trying to think of somthing like this to put on a 'front page' for the VF website, not really for flyers but for the layman that found the website and wanted to know what to know what 'freestyle kite flying' is. As I think we are missing an opportunity to promote the sport.

So far i've got the first 4 words, pretty much the same as the title for this thread, and a few ideas of words like 'three dimensional'..... and somthing about it being the progression of technical skill - like the music referance Fidelio made.

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